How It Works
Sandbox
A walled-off test environment where a program or AI agent can run without being able to harm the real system — like a playpen for code. AI coding agents usually run in sandboxes so a mistake can't delete your files or leak your data.
Origin · no single documented coiner
From children's sandpits. Computer-security researchers adopted it in the 1970s–80s for isolated execution environments; browsers later sandboxed every web page. No single documented coiner.
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